Counter-Strike: Global Offensive

The newest game release on this list, CS:GO, has seen one major website dominate its news since day one. Since their rise to fame covering Counter-Strike 1.6 competitive news for several years, HLTV.org become the mainstay for CS:GO content upon its release.

HLTV offers their members a very active forum, online 'dream team' tournaments partnered with live events, giveaways, event photography, opinion pieces and in-game highlight videos. There are other websites than HLTV covering news, however, some of these being:

StarCraft II

Leading the charge since eSports' recent boom (beginning around 2011) - StarCraft II has set itself in stone as one of the mainstays of eSports globally. Although the tournament numbers have died off a little over the course of 2014, StarCraft II is still boasting some great numbers, alongside a plethora of tournaments, thanks to their developer, Blizzard Entertainment.

For StarCraft II, many teams produce their own content - it's a very 'sponsor aware' scene, with players, teams and fans often going the extra mile to support their financing companies.

Dota2

Most commonly seen streamed on Twitch, Dota2's news network is a little more fragmented than others. There are quite a few websites providing up-to-date information spread across multiple countries, time zones and languages. This is partly due to their massive Russian following, alongside there being not one largely dominated website. The main websites for Dota2 coverage include:

League of Legends

An often criticized game, League of Legends provides the largest user base of the games listed above - actually providing as many players as all the other three titles put together.

It's been previous reported (2013) that League of Legends has a minimum of four million concurrent players at any given time, showing their might in the public scene - seeing this backed up in the professional sector, with their producers, Riot Games, 'employing' professional gamers and 'owning' them much like you see with professional sporting fields in the 'real-world'.

League of Legends is also a fairly scattered news scene; this is mainly due to there being so many large scale websites with full time staff dedicated to producing the latest content. Alongside their in-game client often providing a plethora of localized articles and reports, here are a few others that we've picked out:

Wrapping Things Up

I hope that this guide has given you an extra kick in the right direction when it comes to supporting, following and joining in eSports. We'll be producing more content in the near future explaining concepts about various guides including things such as 'how to improve your personal CS:GO gameplay', 'how to support a gaming team' and other things of interest.

There's a massive wide world of PC eSports out there, this should help you begin your journey.

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